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Stacey Thomas

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As seen in: The Waterstones Podcast, The Daily Mirror, Daily Express, The Bookseller, Bad Form Review
Covers:  Culture, Book Reviews, Gender & Intersectional Feminism
Author of THE REVELS @HQstories ⬇️ Rep'd by @lizadeblock @MushensEnt

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Stacey Thomas’s Biography

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Stacey Thomas is a freelance writer. She is an alumna of the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course and a staff writer for Bad Form Review. Her debut, The Revels, was published by HarperCollins in July 2023. She lives in the UK.

Stacey Thomas’s Journalist Portfolio

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Gabi Burton | 'I wanted her to be someone who felt confident and powerful and beautiful and that'...

Gabi Burton | 'I wanted her to be someone who felt confident and powerful and beautiful and that'...

The premise of Gabi Burton's Sing Me To Sleep reads like a wishlist of everything I love in YA fantasy: forbi…

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Historical Fiction: Only For White Authors? - Bad Form

Historical Fiction: Only For White Authors? - Bad Form

Earlier this year I said the words I'd never thought I'd say: 'I'm going to be a published author.' My first …

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Efua Traoré | 'If the story is written from the heart, readers will feel drawn into it without th...

Efua Traoré | 'If the story is written from the heart, readers will feel drawn into it without th...

Award-winning Nigerian-German author Efua Traoré's début middle-grade novel Children of the Quicksands won th…

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Multiculturalism Isn't new in Britain - Bad Form

Multiculturalism Isn't new in Britain - Bad Form

Theatre Of Marvels is a historical fiction novel of debut author Lianne Dillsworth that immediately drew my a…

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Yrsa Daley-Ward Is Writing To Herself - Bad Form

Yrsa Daley-Ward Is Writing To Herself - Bad Form

My introduction to Yrsa Daley-Ward came not through her poetry, but through her latest book The How, a self-h…

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Lionheart Girl - Yaba Badoe - Bad Form

Lionheart Girl - Yaba Badoe - Bad Form

Lionheart Girl is a YA fantasy by Yaba Badoe, an award-winning Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker and wri…

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Articles

Historical Debuts with Alex Hay, Lucy Barker & Stacey Thomas

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By Alex E. Hay, Lucy Barker, Stacey Thomas Verified
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We have a wonderful trio of authors joining us to discuss their historical fiction books! Alex Hay is the author of The Housekeepers: the cunning and delightfully fun story of a dismissed housekeeper gathering her own Ocean's 8-type group of fellow employees to take revenge on the Upstairs with the heist of the century.
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The Revels a book by Stacey Thomas.

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FORMAT Hardback£16.99£16.14(English) Description ‘An evocative piece of storytelling that weaves sublimely like its witch knots’ – Susan Stokes-Chapman The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul to the devil for powers. What I am has never openly been whispered of, yet it is enough that people would hang for it.’ England, 1645.
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A Date with History in York

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By Stacey Thomas Verified, Alex E. Hay, Lucy Barker
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THE REVELS by Stacey Thomas is a bewitching historical debut set in 17th century York that follows an aspiring playwright who’s apprenticed to a notorious witch-hunter during the witch trials but is harbouring a dark secret, he is a witch himself and he can hear the songs of the dead. THE HOUSEKEEPERS by Alex Hay is a wonderfully fun historical heist with a cast of formidable and unforgettable female characters. It also has some murky secrets hidden behind the glamour.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Reviewing for Bad Form Review

Have you ever used a typewriter?

When I was a child! It was my Christmas present.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Effie Boyle

Awards

Curtis Brown Creative Novel Writing Scholar

2021

Awarded the Curtis Brown Creative Scholarship for their Writing Your Novel - Six Months course for my novel-in-progress The Revels. The Revels takes place in the 1600s, during the witch trials, and is a tale of accusation, stolen identity and war.

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HarperFiction Killing It Competition for Undiscovered Writers

2021 - Creative Writing

Winner of HarperCollins’s inaugural Killing It Competition for Undiscovered Writers of crime fiction. The competition was judged by editorial director Phoebe Morgan, commissioning editor Kathryn Cheshire, assistant editor Sophie Churcher and guest judge Ayo Onatade.

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